Category: Yoga
Caitlin O’Shea
Attention Moms and Moms-to-Be!
The Pad Studios is excited to offer a brand new midday Pilates schedule, and an upcoming Prenatal Yoga Workshop!
– To learn about our upcoming Prenatal Yoga Workshop, click here!
– To learn about our brand new midday Pilates Schedule, click here!
Serenity Yoga Teacher Training at The Pad!
Serenity Yoga hosts its first San Francisco teacher training
to be held at The Pad Studios!
Whether you are interested in deepening your practice, or you feel the call to teach, the Serenity Yoga Teacher Training Program is committed to the personal success of each participant. We offer an excellent, no-nonsense approach that will prepare students to lead safe and balanced hatha yoga classes, for the beginner through advanced level student. Students will acquire the confidence to communicate the practice of yoga to others with the highest level of skill while honoring their own unique voice and style.
The course provides an in-depth mentoring experience that is enriching and transformative. Participants will have the opportunity to develop their skills with supervised personal attention at a comfortable pace in a supportive atmosphere.
This program is for the aspiring yoga teacher, anyone in transition, looking for direction, or simply looking for a deeper understanding of yoga.
The style we teach is a dynamic and intelligent flow which can easily be adapted to different levels and different tempos. At the end of the training you will be qualified to teach Vinyasa Flow Yoga.
200 Hour Topics of Study include:
- Yoga History and Philosophy
- Living Your Yoga
- The Art and Science of Breath
- Asana Techniques: Basic to Advanced Postures
- Meditation Practices and Techniques
- Human Anatomy and Physiology as it Relates to The Yoga Practice
- The Art of Sequencing
- Planning and Leading Group Classes and Private Lessons
- Yogic Techniques to Fit Individual’s Needs
- Creating Anatomically Safe Modifications
- How to Safely and Mindfully Adjust your Students in Asana
- Subtle Energy Anatomy with a Focus on Mudras and Chanting
- Ethical Practices for Yoga Teachers
- The Business Of Yoga
- Practice Teaching
- Karmic Yoga
The course will be taught by Carolyn McManus who brings over 30 years of study and experience to the classroom. Her unique teaching style blends the wisdom of yoga with a dynamic Vinyasa practice and a deep understanding of the physical and energetic body.
Carolyn’s classes are a journey into the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of yoga while maintaining yoga’s “old school” integrity. Carolyn’s compassion and commitment to the growth of her students has made her an accessible mentor to the many teachers she has trained.
Explore This Unique Opportunity!
Visit: http://www.serenity-yoga.net or call 415-706-4166 for more details, or to register today!
Karly Railsback
As a Licensed Massage Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher, and student of Ayurveda, Karly uses all three practices to help students awaken the body and ease the mind. Classes provide a challenging flow with alignment and ease.
Karly’s love of yoga began while working as a massage therapist on a chilly island in Southeast Alaska. Equipped with a deck of yoga posture flash cards, her personal practice grew. After long days of work yoga postures were a way to be sweet to the body and nourish the heart. Without even stepping foot into a yoga studio, the spark was lit and Karly set out to learn about this ancient yet modern practice.
In 2007 she began intensively studying with leading teachers in Honolulu. By 2009 she completed Open Space Yoga teacher training, and has been on the mat and in the studios ever since. Much inspiration has been drawn from teachers such as Jason Crandell, Rod Stryker, Jane Austin, Mary Bastien and Jaime Sharrack. Now living in San Francisco, this hub of natural health, she is delighted to be a teacher, a therapist and a student.
Laurie Eagle
Laurie’s yoga studies began over a decade ago in an attempt to slow down in a fast paced sales lifestyle. Originally, she was drawn to yoga as a form of exercise. Laurie discovered the transformative and healing benefits of yoga and the power of conscious breath. She also realized the teachings of yoga to be beneficial both on and off the mat.
Laurie’s classes are empowering, playful and rich with movement and breath connection. She encourages students to go inside their body and bring conscious breath into their practice playing with the elements of earth, fire, water, space and ether. Her teaching style is alignment based and flowy, increasing strength and flexibility.
Her studies include Hatha, Ashtanga, Viniyoga, Vinyasa Flow & Pre/Post Natal yoga. Laurie is certified to teach both Vinyasa Flow and the YogaWorks style of yoga. She completed two – 200 hour teacher trainings. The first with Janet Stone whom she continues to study with and the second through YogaWorks with John Gaydos and Rachael Simmons. Laurie is also certified to teach Pre/Post Natal yoga and currently studies with Jane Austin. She is also a Certified Personal Trainer.
Lindsea Swisher
An avid
fitness enthusiast, a former competitive soccer player, and a yoga instructor. Lindsea was recruited to play Division I soccer at the University of San Francisco where she excelled professionally until tearing her MCL in 2006. After experiencing excessive back and knee pain she decided to try yoga to help rehabilitate her body. After seeing the immediate benefits of yoga, Lindsea started practicing yoga daily to keep her body and mind healthy. Since leaving a desk job in 2010 to pursue her passion as a yoga instructor Lindsea has been certified through It’s Yoga 200 hr+ training program, in addition 50hrs of Rocket training. Lindsea also has been certified in Yoga Sculpt and Ryde with CorePower. Yoga has become a very important part of her life physically as well as mentally and hopes to give back to other’s what yoga has given to her. Lindsea encourage’s other’s to live a healthy, active, and balanced lifestyle. Today, Lindsea teaches beginners to advanced students and always brings fun, positive energy, and her easy going attitude to every class. Her mission is to bring the health benefits of yoga to anyone looking to try yoga for the first time, de-stress from a long day, or prevent athletic injuries.
Yoga Schedule Change
Dear Pad Community!
Courtney is now teaching Tuesdays at 6 and 7:30pm and Miwa is teaching Wednesday and Thursday at 6 and 7:30pm.
Enjoy!
Rima Haggerty
Rima Haggerty, RYT, PTA was born in Portland, Oregon where she was raised in the teachings of Self Realization Fellowship, the religious organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda. Trained as a dancer and a yogi, Rima attributes many of her accomplishments in dance to the foundational training she received in her yoga classes. She received her degree in Philosophy and Dance in 1999 from the University of Portland. Rima has been teaching yoga since 2003, first in Los Angeles and now in San Francisco. Rima has studied a variety of yoga ‘styles’ including Bikram, Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga and her teaching draws from all of these styles mixed with compassion and an appreciation for the individual. Rima teaches a Hatha-based Vinyasa flow class. Her classes are appropriate for all levels. In addition to teaching yoga, Rima is a Physical Therapist Assistant.
Miwa Tripp
Miwa started her yoga practice after years of resistance. As a former gymnast and dancer, yoga would seem like a natural progression. It wasn’t until one day, when a perfect stranger from Kentucky challenged her to try yoga one more time, that she was permanently hooked. Understanding and appreciating that yoga is a powerful force, capable of focusing the mind and challenging the body, is the passion behind her practice. Miwa completed her teacher training at The Yoga Tree in San Francisco and her practice is ever-evolving under inspiring teachers such as Stephanie Snyder, Anna Hughes and Kerri Kelly. Miwa aims to create an environment where grace encompasses the harmony we seek between the mind, body and spirit.
Austin Efurd
It’s all about love, Ahimsa baby. Ahimsa, a Sanskrit word, literal translation is do no harm. When Yoga first found me I was unconsciously living in patterns of harm, which I believe many of us continue to do, cue the Yoga. Yoga didn’t have this automatic transformative effect the first time I practiced, actually quite the opposite. It wasn’t till moving to SF and practicing Yoga with such powerful instructors that I had an “AHA” moment. What was this “AHA”? It was the realization that we have the ability to stop clasping, grasping and struggling to the idea of a perfect life and instead use that energy to start living a joyful and powerful life. How So? By learning to LET GO of our idea of perfection. When we’re in the studio together I am conscious to create a space of compassion and love. This love based environment creates an opportunity for all to explore beyond the idea of perfection. Your body will be vigorously encouraged, your mind will be lovingly pushed and you’re heart just might expand… that part is up to you! I, myself, am encourage and pushed to expand by Gopa Rusty Wells.